Theatre Register

The Seagull, 1938

Shows · Shubert Theatre, 1938

Revival BroadwayShubert Theatre 41 performances

The run closed April 30, 1938

Opened
March 28, 1938
Closed
April 30, 1938
Performances
41
Previews
Theatre
Shubert Theatre

Of the 1,388 productions we hold that opened in the 1930s and record a performance count, this is the 499th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of The Seagull 7 more that season

1916 Bandbox Theatre Original
1929 Comedy Theatre Revival · Leo Bulgakov 31 perf.
1930 Waldorf Theatre Revival 5 perf.
1964 Belasco Theatre Revival 16 perf.
1992 Lyceum Theatre Revival · Marshall W. Mason 49 perf.
2008 Walter Kerr Theatre Revival · Ian Rickson 94 perf.
2017 Lyric Theatre Transfer

Who was in it12 named

Lynn Fontanne
Alfred Lunt
John Barclay
Ernestine de Becker
S Thomas Gomez
Harold Moffet
Margaret Webster
O Z Whitehead

4 of these 12 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 8 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director
Robert Milton
Producer
The Theatre Guild

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • No recording is held for The Seagull at all.
  • No show page for The Seagull. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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